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The philosophical discourse of modernity : twelve lectures / Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Frederick Lawrence.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge : Polity, 1987.Description: xx, 430 pISBN:
  • 9780745608303
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190 HAB
Contents:
Introduction by Thomas McCarthy vii Preface xix I Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance 1 II Hegel's Concept of Modernity 23 Excursus on Schiller's" Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" 45 III Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche 51 Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm 75 IV The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point 83 V The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno 106 VI The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger 131 VII Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique of Phonocentrism 161 Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature 185 VIII Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille 211 IX The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault 238 X Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again 266 XI An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject- Centered Reason 294 Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution 327 XII The Normative Content of Modernity 336 Excursus on Luhmann's Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory
Summary: The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.
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Includes index.

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy vii Preface xix I Modernity's Consciousness of Time and Its Need for Self-Reassurance 1 II Hegel's Concept of Modernity 23 Excursus on Schiller's" Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" 45 III Three Perspectives: Left Hegelians, Right Hegelians, and Nietzsche 51 Excursus on the Obsolescence of the Production Paradigm 75 IV The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a Turning Point 83 V The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno 106 VI The Undermining of Western Rationalism through the Critique of Metaphysics: Martin Heidegger 131 VII Beyond a Temporalized Philosophy of Origins: Jacques Derrida's Critique of Phonocentrism 161 Excursus on Leveling the Genre Distinction between Philosophy and Literature 185 VIII Between Eroticism and General Economics: Georges Bataille 211 IX The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault 238 X Some Questions Concerning the Theory of Power: Foucault Again 266 XI An Alternative Way out of the Philosophy of the Subject: Communicative versus Subject- Centered Reason 294 Excursus on Cornelius Castoriadis: The Imaginary Institution 327 XII The Normative Content of Modernity 336 Excursus on Luhmann's Appropriation of the Philosophy of the Subject through Systems Theory

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.

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